CEASERS LRORL ORES ERE ERNE RERORS
What Is prettier than the
awakening love in a fine young
woman and her artless coquetry
in leading the object of her af-
fection up to a proposal of mar
riage? And what is more un-
pleasant to witness than her re.
buff by a man who falls to un-
derstand?
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SSSR EERRSESRERERRL ESS
CEST ETEPRRL NERA AIR U RIED IRTRRRORES
CHAPTER XXViii—Continued.
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The subjectivity of a sick man dis-
arms woman; she knows she Is safe
and shandons her weapons of attack
and defense as long as the invalid Is
taken up with the state of his insides.
Clem was unaffected, even tender, with
Alan as long as he was weak, but as
his strength returned to him she with.
drew, one by one and gently, the intl
mate attentions a woman accords to
babes and the related helpless. But
there was nothing absolute in her with-
drawal; it was more a temptation than
a denial, born of woman's Innate de-
sire to be pursued. While Alan
half mis-
full strength
the
pressed gayety, half dem
chievous, but when his
came back and he falled to pursue,
gayety arrested
questioning wistful
the secret shame and
repulsed and undesired,
Clem saw Alan build a barrier
against her, a barrier of little things,
each Insignificant In Itself but
lending and borrowing
accumulation.
the old captain,
alked with J. XY.
tween them, J. Y.
we,
itself,
ind ended in
biusties of the
ness
rode
judge,
judge
walked,
and the
and the
je
had
afternoon Mrs. J, Y
was hesleged to surrender the
{ and finally did. Alan had gone to his
room and closed the door.
the
dreary. In
Somebody rapped at Alan's door and
he called, “Come In.” The door opened
and revealed Nance, junior. Behind
her was a giggling, whispering throug,
The spirit of fun danced In Nance's
eyes. Her cheeks were flushed and
her golden head was In disarray. “Oh,
Cousin Alan,” she cried, “grandma’s
given us leave
we're all going to play except mother
and grandma and the captain. Please
come, too, Cousin Alan”
From behind her came a modified
“Pleath do, Couthin Alan." Alan
smiled and laid down his book. “All
right,” he laughed.
echo,
that had grown and spread
| giant maples that sheltered It.
age the captain had demanded a wing
or some bygone Nance a
her children was chronicled fn the an-
to the
The
only searching, architectural
eye.
ture Iay
{ room, the
kitchen.
in the thick-walled dining
parlor, one bedroom and
ck
the
nucleus of
bad
1p yaad,
From the
rooms Maple House
posed and superin unt! it over.
{ lowed the arbitrary bourne of kitch-
| ens and front and
| mounded vine rippled off on all sides,
| in vast living room, sunny nurseries
and a broken fringe of broad verandas
these four
grown, ime
doors ike some
cabled.
In the midst of women
to be able to forget
her intentionally. There was noth
pointed in his avoldance
distance from Alix and N
Jane Elton in the same
from Clem. TI
the single avoidance of
who lav
whom he would
vain of ¢
hours before her
Alan seemed
woman—tio forget
nce and
measure
was thus
ere none ox
vishes attentions on all but
1 nn
her
Clem,
sat k
riy sue,
ieast yn
‘er before
\ wen ques
never hac he been reed to
nd call up the re
at a loss, 1
had the cha
; the
serves, and now
accustomed to
soguette, (ler
fier bauds a
Lio
thie
At The
reat!
Firs Mrs
from
to read and
Gerry's note
wing moved
to room and
re-read a er
to Allx.
Alix was stl
are had writ
Alix replied
that she wished to
at a time Mra. Lansing replaced
nurse at Gerry, junlor's,
helped her. Bhe felt that
Alix.
She was almost glad when he devel.
oped some trifling ailment becoming
to hls years. She wired again and this
time Alix came, frightened. Alix was
ike a wilted flower, but she braced
herself antl Gerry, junior, recovered
into his healthy sel. Then she drooped
once more and refused to be com:
forted.
If it had not been for Alan, Alix’
trouble would have cast a gloom over
the rest of Red Hill,
that Alan had sought ont Mrs. Lan-
sing and told ber that not even
knew just how Gerry's battle stood,
Hut that he did know that there was a
stor ped often
umpled note
in
ten to her
town. Mrs. Lan
nd then wired
not to
For hours
the
He
he could help
telling her come,
’
wr nlone
slde.
come back as soon as he had fought
hig way clear.
Bo the Hill in general went atmost
antroubled on its way trying to forget
that it was still awaiting a fulfillment,
and even Alix began to glean a little
comfort from the thought that hope
was but deferred. Her heart was sick.
tier faith weak, but hope still lived.
She clung through the long days to
Gerry, junior, and waited,
At Maple House the beating of
young hearts amounted to a din, bat
it was suddenly stilled by a day of !
drenching rain. After the very tame
excitement of seeing J. Y,
fudge off for the city, gloom settled
in the faces of the children. Cousin
Tom, In rubber boots and coat, came
down the road from Elm House to
find company for misery, The barn
was requisitioned and became
scene of a subdued frolle, but it af.
forded meager diversion. The hay
Clem Stood Before Him Dazed.
There were
and held
ment and
pera that jutied
nooks that were satisfied
back from further encroach-
there were outstanding cor
boldly out over the
raid.
Inside, the paths of daily life ran
enough through the maze, but
on thelr flanks hung many a somber
den for ambush or retreat. Cavernous
closets, shadowy corners, lumbered at-
| ties and half-forgotten interstices of
| discarded space opened dark gorges to
the intrepid. and threatened the nerv-
clearly
bring forth. The gods of chllidhood's
games themselves could not have
i builded a better scene for that most
palpitating of sports, hide and seek
fon a rainy day
Alan soon entered ints the spirit of
i the game, He found himself recollect-
{ing things about Maple House that he
had more than half forgotten; strange
byways under the roof; a vacant cham-
ber, turned into a trunk reem because
{one by one It had been robbed of its
windows; and lastly the little attic
! that had been, as it were, left behind
an wall
{ Through this dreamland of a hun.
| dred children flitted the brood of the
| day, marshaled rather breathlessly by
| Clem and Alan. Anxious whispers,
[a sudden stlence but for the flutelike
| counting of some juvenile It, were fol
| race for the gonl.
never countenanced the effete and di
hide and sevk, where you had to hold
your man when found or beat him
to the goal,
Great was the exeftement when the
Httlest It of all caught Cousin Alan
by a tackle around the ankle that
spoke a volume of promise for the
littlest It's academic, career and
forought 4 fn ow of Amlevoment to his |
perspiring face. Alan was placed at
the newel at the foot of the great stalr-
case and duly admonished in
volces not to look, The treble volces
rained exelted instructions on him, car
ried
ability
to suck
slowly
to teach its grandmother
eggs. Alan started to count
in sonorous tones, With a last
trebles faded away Into silence,
Alan crept stealthily up
Out of the corner of Lis eye he caught
sight of the twitching Jumpers of the
littlest, who was too fat to quite fit the
retreat he had chosen. But Alan did
not quite see until it was too late. The
Hittlest exploded the vast breath he
had been holdiog in and plunged head
long down the stairs. As he rolled by
the newel he stuck out a sturdy arm
and held fast. He shouted a pean of
victory and once more palpitating si
Alan wondered If he could find the
wny to the little attic. He
of steps, turned, dived through a low,
narrow tunnel and threw open
long-forgotten door. It was
he had suddenly opened a portal on his
own childhood. A great, pensioned
the
held it. Ancient
wills and from hooks on
the rafters. A box or two and more
disabled furniture littered the foor.
lit up by the
little dormer window,
Alan drew a
He was not disappointed.
light from a
Nothing stirred.
breath. No
ht to come bere but him
Alan sprang in
front of It. threw his arms around it,
held it tight. It struggled,
ceased to struggle, and looked up
looked down, Clem's face was
very near to his. Her body, still throb
bing with excitement, was in hi
Alan feit such a riot]
blood as he had never
He wanted to kiss Clem
her, the it
laughed,
ans
arms,
in his
known before
He felt that
must kiss there was not
nongh left in him to do
Then his
and he forgot himself a
Clem. His soul cried,
he dropped his arms from
and stepped back.
Clem stood before
was in her stock
hand she held a
eyes were big and full of the soft re
bh of the mortally wounded, Alan
ashamed and looked away. He
had to bre ak the silence
* he sald lamely
Clem dropped one silpper,
her hand and brushed
hair from her forehead
caught,” she sald, and her
ng surge
strength « any-
thing elise met
eves hers
“Sacrilege.”
and
about her
him, dazed.
feet In each
ipper. Her
She
need
little a»!
ron
:
threw up
the disordered
disgust, was
by McDale & M«
ion was all
pleased
i
There
trains for
let up the
arrested by the sigh of a
ing on the curb
of the traffic
iressed in a heavy
a Stetson hat.
med in the very form
had blocked by the makers.
in yelied, “Hi! fellers,
got away wiffalo Bi
gad-eved but
drooping mustaches, doubt
of the shoot.
were oO
“ - yy » 149%,
noon mt dif
As he stro! avenue |
watching
whipcord
nHueo
{
awirl figure
heen
what's from
gazed
less mourning the passing
Answer
able affronts of a fostered clviling
Alan way
elbowed his fncross
by the arm. Kemp whirled around as
raw Alan's face. “1 was Jest calen-
iatin’ on roundin’ you up,” he drawled
“Where did you come from? Where
waiting for an answer he halled a cab,
to his club,
In the club lobby Kemp surrendered
his hat reluctantly to the ready attend
ant and followed Alan across soft car
pets to a quiet corner where two enor
mous chalrs seemed to be making con
fidences to each other, One could
imagine them aggrieved at being inter
rupted and sat upon.
“Well, Kemp,” sald Alan, “I'm glad
to see yon. What's yours?”
“Rye 'nd a chaser,” said Kemp
“Same for me, waiter,” ordered
Alan. “Now, Kemp, tell me ail about
it.”
“1 just blowed in from Lieber's, Mr,
Wayne, and I'm headed west.”
“How's Lieber and where's Gerry?
Did Lieber get my cable?”
Kemp looked sadly out through the
window, “Lieber's dead."
“Dead? Lieber dead?”
Kemp nodded. “I found him with
everything fixed for kickin’ the bucket.
He knew what was the matter, but he
didn't tell me what It was. Sald it
an’ thet the' wa'nt no he'p for it. Bat
he got your eable, Mr. Wayne, and he
wanted 1 should tell you that what you
done wa'nt wasted. He said there
wa'n't nothin’ thet could he'p him
through the way that cable did. He
sald it was the passpo’t he'd been
he was Bol’ to use it.
cleared his trail for him. Them
all the things he sald I should
youn.”
Kemp stopped talking
was
and downed
ful. Lieber
in hig life
wns gone and made a gap
that he never knew
He wanted to know
“Well?”
“You remember the joa tree
ber's, Mr. Wayne? One o
somest trees on earth, 1 reckon, ex
when the Booganviller comes out
then (t's a happy mount rod
pu'ple that kind o' lights up the huil
desert.”
Alan nodded.
“Well, then, yon
bowlder of graywnd
‘hat's Lleber’s head
more,
nt Tie
the lone
an’
iy ’ ¢
Lino nnd
remember the big
ke under
He
stone, had a
the
Heo glve him a
boa’d to copy fm.
then words beat
led "em
here they
carry him out under tree
work
cut Into a
. but
time, 1
paper
me every
bit of
Kemp drew a sli}
old wallet that housed
Purple City.” He handed it to
“Wish you'd put me on,” he sald,
I know is it ain't American
ain't Mex.”
The words on
Corr
an'
y of paper ry
though, he
game “The
Alan
the slip
an stared
gaw them. “Qui de nous n'a
sa terre promise, son Jour d'extase,
sa fin en exil?’ he read
et
slowly to him
with hia eyes far away,
‘Who of us has
land, his day of
and his end in exile?
Kemp nodded and held out his
He it back
in his wallet and sald, “I suppose the
et wrote that was thinkin’
of a man's mind, but when it
facts them words don’t fit
He got more exiie than was
to him; it et up the ecstasy
more of the promised land
don’ know. They's lots of folks
needs to worry more'n Lieber
crossin’ the divide”
th 50 phy
thought
‘
translated for Kemp, *
not had his promised
rity t
put
mostly
COMeS
Lieber
to
nn
But 1
that
is
over
for some time
Hed HIN
Kemjg
They sat
and then Alan r
‘Where you st
“Astor house”
Alan
he
mberad
are Aying,
at his watch
“We've to hustle
time to rush down
looked
sald
We've just got
on
“What for?" drawied Kemp
“1 was bound for our place out
the country when I found you. Wi
forty catch
train You're com!i
A wary it CAD
“Your folks gut there,
in
Ve
minutes to the
ng with me™
y int 5
1 o Kemp
Mr
1
you 8S eyes
Wayne?”
“Nes,” sald Alan
“Kemp, do you take me
and t! ad Bed,
hat
oA ne
game
en
for a man
id steer you up ag st a
you don’t hold canis
“No,” maid
foun
into a taxi bef
test.
If Alan
Kemp,
d himself hatt
to LA fo 53
id it on the
{ fant Mrs
fixed her soft, myopic gaze on him
then looked away him
a cup of tea and a biscuit, Kemp held
the
his hand
contents,
Mr
some other ar
Kemp's quick eve roved over
group He saw that pobody was tak-
ing anything bu «a and at the same
that
judge
at }
and
cup and sauce
at their
y MOL 3
Mrs
softly,
the
gratefully
bim., The
talking to
and Cousin
before Gerry, juni
hour from Alix
arrayed in
nobody
was watching and
were each
Tom were
or, stolen
for a short
archy
like a ballet skirt
above his sturdy, fat legs, was gravely
Charlie
and re
Nance
buried
pillows,
eruptions,
ou the children's efforts,
Kemp turned a
Mrs. J. X. “1 ain't sayin’, ma'am, thet
this mixture is my usual bev'rage, but
4 man don't expect to have his usual
handed down f'n a pulpit, and like.
wise 1 see no call for folks turnin’ their
front lawus into a bar.”
Kemp conid feel a scene; his strange
nature was moved at finding itself
and when Kemp was moved he al
ways talked to hide his emotion. Mrs.
J. Y's kindly eyes led him on, made
dm feel weirdly akin to those quiet,
contented men and women and clean:
ing against the peaceful setting of
shady trees, old lawns and the ram.
bling house that staidly watched them
like some motherly hen, wings out:
spread, ever ready to brood and shel:
ter.
and swept over the scene again.
“Speakin' of bare,” he went on in his
“1 don’t think a missus
an’ above what goes in 'nd out of a
milk pall,
ner o
that |
which fsn't drink In a man.
speakin’, I ean’t rightly rec’liect
ever seen a missus leanin’ over
but
I've strayed some from the home fence
n’ you may be su'prised, Mis’ W
thet they’s lands wh
never heerd te!
where barmalds is
the miikin' brand.”
“Yes?'’ Mrs. J. ¥
ayne,
$re no one
ain't an an’
uer'n
1 on a barn
#OMme comnio
sald encourag
“8ho' thing,” repiled Kemp; “1 seen
won't forget the fust time
onsid’'nble emb
sed a in
firm was In a hurry,
me acrost to B'uthampton,
wns waltin’ for the Brazil
I'd picked up on bos’d
Well, it w
he corralled
be.
sed}
an’
511 i &
Cause 1 was
I mi
narra
steamer Yawk
so they
Noo
pent
while |
boat a feller
showed me
t'n't lon
Gguite willl y,
a bar. 1 pulled off my hat and
says, ‘Why d'you take off yo' hat?
‘Why don't you take off
a lady hea'? Ti
laughin’ and everybody
enough to hea’ bust out
issus bebind the bar
an’
ne g be
me.
he
and
yourn?
they's en
he bust
that
iaughin’
Inughed, though somehow
sound as If sh» ed be
‘vy 1t."
med to blu
out
WHR en ,
an’
100,
the m
t didn't
inugh Calne
couldn't he
Kemp pu Hh over the mem
He did not notice that the
and J. Y, had drawn quietly
and that the of the
rown-ups were intent
ey times
s fittin’
rest group
his words
continned,
that n man should be
ghiootin’ Irons an’ Was one
I ean’t rightly say what
happened but guessin’s
he was
on
he
without
of "¢
would have
that
easy When
through laughin’ the feller that
me
ck and sez
barmaid.’
some mo’
the ba “That ain't no lady;
An' then they all
and the missus just
inughed an’ 1 mought ‘a’
but 1 thought 1
in her eves thet says she wasn't laugh
Ever e then I'v
missus
nghed
kind o
dreamin’,
been
geen a look
gene
has
wun the sta
the surround
he was a genuine «
had
8, they
wed ried in
casual appros
Just before he
took it wn hin
Alan led him to
neg tH
WINE a
went
self
away Kemp
on Alix
sat on the
The Firs and
Allx looked up In wonder at
pk formn. p held his hat
ixted it SLY
and tw i
want
0
to call
where she
trees at
Ken
ners
he sald, 1
rds
five
few wi
ant all
Mr. Lansing. "cause the
1 don't
Thet's the way It
cn tell you
well an’
8 steer
biggest
tf 0 some
gide on "er
Mr. Lansing I
thet Mr. Lansing Is
strong enough to swing
meet t
hat I know Now
thoughts. Mr
be a maverick
to wager,
the
13 Lansing
1 to Right
I'm willin®
for home and
comin’ on the mn
chewin' his cud
“When 1 seen him
thought on hog-tyin’
him along, ‘cause Mr. Wayne had tol’
me about you an’ the two-year-ol.
it come to me that a woman of sperit-—
one of ourn-
should be brought in.
he'd hog-tle hisseff.”
Alix" head hung In
hands were clasped
now,
bot he
in-he's browsin’
COrTal,
five weeks ago |
him an’ bringin’
She'd sooner
Her
As
thought.
in her lap.
Kemp rose and sald good-by, With
his hat pulled well gver his brows and
his bands In his pockets, he slouched
toward the gate.
Allx jumped up and followed him,
fhe lald her thin, light hand on his
“Thank you,” she said, a little
Kemp's deepset eyes
twinkled down on her. He held out
bis big, rough hand and Alix gripped
it.
“Not good-by,” she sald,
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about Gerry's affair with little
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